16S rDNA sequence analysis
Genomic DNA of a potentially useful strain was extracted by
the standard method (Sambrook, Fritsch, & Maniatis, 1989) and
16S rDNA was amplified using GeneAmp PCR System 9600. The
F-primer was 5-GGGTGAGTACACGTGGGTGA-3 and the R-primer was 5-GCCCAGAGACCCGCCTTCGC-3. The PCR product size was 1507 bp. A 603 bp region of the amplified DNA was partially
sequenced using the ABI 377 DNA sequencer. The BLAST program
from the NCBI database (Altschul et al., 1997) was used to identify
the most closely related species to the strain.